Paul March: Another Part of the World, 2017
The title comes from a line in a song by The Talking Heads, Once in a lifetime, and refers here to my feelings of consternation and confusion about the relation between the work developing in front of me and my day-to-day life in contemporary Europe. But when I began following the process more closely, it became clear that, like claustra, the other part of the world to which I was referring was, in fact, made up of bits and pieces of the world around me. This is how I described it in a paper I wrote with archaeologist Lambros Malafouris, Art through Material Engagement… “What I am trying to get across here is how ideas in various states of materialization jostle and juxtapose themselves along an ongoing creative-temporal thread… an idea is a physical gesture that stands in relation to an arc of morphological change – here manifested by the plastic qualities of clay. By moving ideas out of the head and into the world like this, it is easier to see how they rub up against each other, transpose themselves from one material to another, and in doing so, change their signification and learn something new into existence.”
Another Part of the World, 2017, stoneware, steel & wood. 3.5 x 4 x 1.4m. ©Paul March
